Jesus spoke uncompromising truth, in love! But for some people truth is difficult to handle!

In today’s culture, numbers are too often the measure of a successful church. But we can’t let that be the measurement for teaching truth! Teaching what God says is right and wrong will routinely offend many.

Jesus’ own disciples were offended, but they kept coming back to Him to learn more. And many new crowds gathered around Jesus to hear His teachings after the others had left.

If the church today is to make disciples, as well as converts, we’ll have to change from our focus on numbers, and re-embrace the qualitative ones that Jesus used. Here’s my point! Churches should not primarily be judged on how many attend, but rather on how many move into truly biblical thinking—in all the spheres of influence in present day culture!